Nitrenes and Nitrenium Ions

摘要

Having a longstanding interest in reactive intermediates that has recently turned more toward nitrenes, I was looking forward to the publication of this volume of the Wiley series on nitrenes and nitrenium ions, edited by Falvey and Gudmundsdottir. As the editors note in the Introduction, the last monograph on nitrenes was in the mid-80s, before we had convenient access to theoretical methods capable of describing their electronic structures accurately, and studies of nitrenium ions were just getting started. There have been various reviews written over the intervening years, but this volume brings together a diverse array of topics, covering aspects of nitrenes that will appeal mostly to the physical organic chemist who encounters nitrenes as reactive intermediates.